ADDENDA. 



By an oversight, the most conspicuous bird in the region of Madeira is omitted — viz., the Yellow- 

 billed or Mediterranean Herring Gull, Larus cachinnans. 



Page 3. I believe avestruz is the recognised Portuguese for Ostrich. 



Page 4. Figs. 5, 6, 7 are, of course, on Plate III. Figs. 6 and 7 are transposed on this Plate. 



Page 5, 11th line from top, for "It measured six feet across" read "eleven feet." 



Page 7. I find Moseley is not referring to Tristan da Cunha, but to Nightingale Island. 



Page 11, 8th line from top, for "shore-loving" read "shore-going." 



Page 11. D. nigripes. — Coasting from Foochow to Shanghae (near the Fisherman's Group) 

 I once came across these black varieties. 



Page 14. Using the word "class" here and in page 36, is of course a misprint. Birds {Avcs) 

 are a class. The Albatrosses are a subfamily of the great family Procellariida. 



Page 16. Sooty Albatross. — " The birds that fly most about in these seas (the South Atlantic) 

 are Alcatraci, a sort of Sea Gulls as big as Geese, of a brownish colour, with long beaks wherewith 

 they take fish ; and which they feed on, either upon the surface of the water or while they are up 

 in the air. At night, when they are disposed to sleep, they dash themselves aloft as high as possible, 

 and putting their head under one wing, support themselves for some time with the other ; but 

 because the weight of their bodys must needs force them down again at last, they no sooner come to 

 the water but they retake their flight, and both which being often repeated, they may in a manner 

 be said to sleep waking. Oftentimes it happens that they fall into the ships as they sail, and into 

 ours there fell two one night and one another. Those who know the nature of them farther say 

 that in time of year they always go on shore to build their nests and that in the highest places 

 whereby they facilitate their flight, having but short feet, and those large like unto a Goose. Of this 

 we made an experiment upon them that fell into our ship, and found that being left at liberty upon 

 the plain deck they could by no means raise themselves." — (Father Jerom Merolla (1682), ' Voyages 

 and Travels,' vol. i., p. 665). 



Page 17. Stoem Petrel. — ' The Field' has it that " Mother Carey" is a corruption of " Madre Cara." 

 " The Spanish sailor, invoking by this name the aid of the Virgin during a storm, fondly sees an answer to 

 his prayer in the appearance of the Petrels as the storm abates ; not knowing that the disturbance of the 

 water at such a time brings to the surface much of the matter on which those birds feed." 



Page 22. Wilson's Storm Petrel. — In describing the under tail-coverts of my specimens, I mean 

 quite white-ti^jjjcrf. The central under tail-coverts are black, the outer ones white on the outer web. 

 Length to end of tail, 8 inches ; wings extending 1^ inch beyond. 



Page 25. Great Petrel. — For "I caught the specimen from which Fig. 5," &c., read "Plate V." 

 In the 'Graphic' of November 6th, 1886, there is an illustration and account of H.M.S. 'Leander' 



